SKYSTARS AM32 Stacks - Great Hardware But With A Surprise!

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Summary

TLDRÎn acest video, se analizează două stack-uri de la Sky Stars - un stack complet și un stack mini, ambele bazate pe AM32. Se discută despre specificațiile tehnice ale controlerului de zbor și al ESC-ului, inclusiv caracteristicile precum UART-uri, gyroscop, și opțiuni de conectivitate. De asemenea, sunt scoperite unele probleme legate de software, unde un ESC a livrat software BLHeli32 în loc de AM32. Se explică și opțiunile de configurare disponibile pentru AM32, evidențiind ușurința utilizării unui configurator web, fără a necesita instalări complicate. În concluzie, Sky Stars primește aprecieri pentru calitatea hardware-ului și fiabilitatea sa.

Takeaways

  • 📦 Review detaliat al stack-urilor Sky Stars.
  • ⚙️ F722 HD Pro 4 are 6 UART-uri și gyroscop MPU 6000.
  • ⚠️ Problema cu firmware-ul ESC-ului KM 55A: livrat cu BLHeli32.
  • 🌐 Configurarea AM32 se face online fără software instalat.
  • 🔒 Diode de protecție TVS integrate pentru fiabilitate.
  • 👍 Sky Stars este apreciată pentru calitatea hardware-ului.
  • 🔧 Opțiuni avansate de configurare disponibile pentru ESC-uri.
  • 📉 Riscul de spool up redus prin configurarea manuală a protocolului.
  • 🔍 Detalii despre construcția și materialele folosite în stack-uri.
  • 💡 Sprijinul comunității este important pentru dezvoltarea canalului.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    În acest video, autorul examinează două stack-uri produse de Sky Stars, bazate pe AM32. Începe cu o introducere despre produsele trimise gratuit de Sky Stars, subliniind că păstrează opinia proprie. Vorbește despre stack-ul pentru zbor de dimensiuni mari (30x30) și mini stack-ul (20x20), detaliind caracteristicile de bază, cum ar fi controlerele de zbor, caracteristicile tehnice, conectivitatea și porturile disponibile.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Primul stack, f722 HD Pro 4, este descris în detaliu, întâlnind specificații precum microcontrolerul F722 la 116 MHz, GP-ul MPU 6000, diverse porturi UART, ieșiri PWM pentru motoare, senzor de barometru, și porturi I2C. Oferă și un grad de protecție cu un strat de acoperire conformal pe partea inferioară.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Pe lângă detalii despre stack, autorul discută despre ESC-ul AM60, care suportă până la 60A, dar subliniază că nu există diferențe semnificative între acest ESC și celelalte de pe piață. Examenele de construcție sunt detaliate, incluzând pad-uri individuale pentru ieșirile motorului, un design bine gândit, și adaptabilitate pentru utilizarea cu diverse contructuri și protecții. Discută și despre următoarea versiune mai mică a stack-ului, accentuând diversitatea de caracteristici între cele doua dimensiuni.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:21:29

    În ultima parte, autorul aduce în discuție problemele întâmpinate legate de firmware-urile ESC-urilor primite, evidențiind o neconcordanță între eticheta ESC-ului și software-ul efectiv, fapt ce a generat confuzii în comunitate. Scenariul arată că, deși unele ESC-uri sunt livrate cu firmware BLHeli, utilizatorii au opțiunea de a le flash-ui pe am32. Se discută despre configurarea am32 utilizând instrumente bazate pe web, facilitând interoperabilitatea și personalizarea funcționalităților, de exemplu, stabilind manual protocolul pentru fiecare ESC. Autorul finalizează video-ul anunțând planuri viitoare legate de testarea și configurarea am32.

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Video Q&A

  • Ce tipuri de stackuri sunt prezentate?

    Se prezintă un stack complet și un stack mini de la Sky Stars, bazate pe AM32.

  • Care sunt caracteristicile principale ale stack-ului F722 HD Pro 4?

    Acesta dispune de un microcontroller F722, 6 UART-uri, MPU 6000, șase ieșiri PWM și diverse caracteristici de conectivitate.

  • Ce probleme au fost întâmpinate cu ESC-ul KM 55A?

    ESC-ul a venit cu software BLHeli32 în loc de AM32, ceea ce a fost o confuzie pentru unii utilizatori.

  • Cum pot fi configurate ESC-urile AM32?

    Configurarea se poate face online printr-un configurator web dedicat, fără necesitatea instalării de software.

  • Ce tip de protecție oferă controllerele?

    Controllerele vin cu diode de protecție TVS pentru a îmbunătăți fiabilitatea.

  • Cum se compară SKY STARS AM32 cu alte mărci?

    SKY STARS este considerată una dintre cele mai fiabile mărci disponibile pe piață, având recenzii pozitive din partea utilizatorilor.

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    today we're taking a look at two stacks
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    from Sky stars that are based on
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    am32 or at least they should have been
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    and I'll talk about that a little bit
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    more later on in the video anyway what
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    we're going to do today is take a look
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    at these Stacks I'm going to walk you
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    through the features and capabilities
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    we're then going to take a bit of a look
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    at the am32 configuration and explain
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    what I meant about that should be as
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    well now just before we get onto this I
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    just want to say sky stars did send me
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    these stacks to take a look at for free
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    however they have not paid me to make
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    this video they've not seen this video
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    before it's been published and as always
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    my thoughts are entirely my own okay now
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    Sky Stars have been one of the brands
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    that have been on board with
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    am32 pretty much since the beginning
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    they were definitely one of the early
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    adopters and getting into am32 before
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    most others now today we're going to
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    take a look at two stacks we have a full
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    sizee stack and we have a mini stack and
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    what I'm going to do is just give you an
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    overview of both and just talk about the
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    features of them and explain what these
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    are like compared to some of the others
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    that I'm going to seen on the market now
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    to start we're going to look at the
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    30x30 stack now this is the f722 HD Pro
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    4 obviously being called f722 means it
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    is based off the f722 microcontroller
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    that runs 116 MHz now this flight
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    controller features six uarts there are
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    four pwm outputs for the motor the gyro
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    is the mpu 6000 and it has a barrow on
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    board as well what's nice about this
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    stack is it also has i2c Port as well
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    and led pads on the corners allowing you
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    to control them flipping it over to the
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    other side you will find on the back
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    that there are dual backs there's a
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    5volt and a 10vt back on this flight
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    controller both rated up to 3 amp and
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    there's also an ldo regulator on board
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    for supplying power to the sensors to
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    offer the cleanest possible output from
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    the likes of your gyro as you can see
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    there we also have an analog OSD chip so
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    if you don't want to use it with digital
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    don't worry you can still use it with
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    analog and there is also 16 Megs of
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    onboard blackbox storage located down
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    there with a Wim Bon chip now looking
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    around the board you can see there are
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    lots of pads available there is a
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    dedicated port for the digital but
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    everything else is padded out as well
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    and you've also got pads on the bottom
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    of the board down here too what's nice
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    about the board when you look at it it
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    also seems to be some form of conformal
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    coated on the bottom as well it's not on
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    the top but it is on the bottom offering
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    some additional protection one of the
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    other nice features on this controller
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    is the fact that you can control the
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    back output with the switch on your
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    radio that is all done via the user one
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    settings and it's really handy if you're
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    using it with digital vtx's the likes of
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    dj3 Avatar HD it means number one you
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    can stop it overheating but number two
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    if you're using GPS you can actually
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    allow your GP GPS to get good satellite
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    acquisition good lock before powering up
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    the digital VTX this is controlled via
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    the user one settings in betaflight and
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    you can simply configure it that you can
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    have your VTX power output on a switch
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    on your radio next moving over to the
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    ESC now this is the am60 which is 60 amp
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    up to 6s it supports a minimum voltage
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    input like the flly controller of 3s it
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    supports dshot 600 and 1200 and is based
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    off am32 and the ESC is said to weigh 18
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    G now really there's not a great deal to
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    show you on the ESC compared to others
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    am32 is flashable onto a normal ESC that
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    supports BL hel 32 so there's nothing
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    specific about this ESC Hardware wise
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    compared to say a BL heli 32 ESC and
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    really what you're looking at here is
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    the quality of the build of this
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    compared to others what I really like
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    about this ESC is you have individual p
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    ads for the motor outputs all the way
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    down the sides you'll notice that they
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    are all vied and they are all
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    castellated as well and that is the same
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    for the main power input pads as well
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    again lots of vires going through with
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    castellation down the outside and then
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    obviously we have our connector up here
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    for our flight controller quality
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    everything looks really really good we
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    will get it under the microscope in a
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    minute but you can see there's just some
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    touches to show that they've put thought
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    into it the castellation and the vires
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    on the pads you've got some glue on some
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    of the components there and around the
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    connector and it just shows that Sky
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    Stars have put a lot of thought into the
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    build itself but what we'll do is get it
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    under the microscope to have a look at
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    how everything has been laid out the you
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    can see in the bottom corner we've got
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    our digital VTX connectors we've then
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    got our T1 R1 5vt and ground for our
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    receiver we've got the LED pads on the
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    corners down there you've got your rest
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    of the pads there going around there all
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    the way around the side with them all
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    being labeled for the motor outputs and
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    then additional pads over here now
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    you've got LEDs located there as well
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    for status there you can see the SC and
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    SDA pads if you want to run a campus
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    there's a boot button and then you got
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    your Barrow sensor down there and then
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    you've got a little jumper there to tell
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    you what voltage output you want for the
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    VTX it's going to be set as 10 volt as
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    standard but you can change that to 5
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    Vol if you needed to if we then now just
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    flip it over to the other side it's
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    going to be quite hard to show you this
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    side because it is conformally coated
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    all of the light is just going to
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    reflect off it you can see there we've
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    got the chipset the at 7456 e which is
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    the analog SD you've got your Wim Bond
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    flare storage you got some protection
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    dodes our back as well as our sensors
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    there you see invent Sense on that One
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    More Voltage regulation
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    there as well the build quality on the
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    board looks really good all of the
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    components look nicely placed all of the
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    pads soldered look fine right up there
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    with what I would expect from any other
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    manufacturer now looking at the ESC
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    there's not a great deal to show you on
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    this side of the board although I can
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    show you the castellation and the vires
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    on the pads you can see that there you
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    can see the virs on the pads there it's
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    hard to show you without refocusing I'll
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    put some b roll up so you can see the
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    castellation on the pads better but it
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    looks really nice I do like the way
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    these pads are cut out for the motors as
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    well if we flip the board over this side
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    you can see them there a little bit
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    easier you can see for the pads on the
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    corners that it does go around the
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    outside of the connector but there is a
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    ground under there as well so there's
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    nothing to worry about there we can see
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    our
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    fats our motor
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    drivers just going be quite hard to see
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    what the make is on
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    these I'll try and get that up in a
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    minute and again we'll talk about that
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    separately but overall with the build
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    quality again all of the components look
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    well placed no issues whatsoever now
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    just looking at those micr controllers
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    they are the a32s
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    421s and then the motor drivers is the
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    sa 628
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    34s that you can see there it's quite
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    hard to show it with the conformal
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    coating but you can read it and as for
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    the fat is quite hard to show you here
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    but they seem to be the tph HR 85s if I
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    just try and get the light right there
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    you go you can just see it written on
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    one of them there next moving over to
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    the f722 Mini HD Pro 2 now this is a
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    mini version of the one we've just
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    looked at again based on the f722
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    chipset running at 216 MHz mpu 6000 gyro
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    still has six uarts still has i2c still
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    has a barrow sensor still has analog HD
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    D still has 16 Megs of onboard Black Bog
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    storage and it even still has a digital
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    VTX connector down there as well it has
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    pretty much most of the same
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    functionality as you get on the larger
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    one apart from this is in a 20 x 20 and
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    that one's in a 30x30 it still features
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    dual Becks but they are reduced from 3
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    amp capable down to 2 Amp capable but
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    again that's going to be absolutely fine
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    for most people's use cases 5vt and 10vt
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    will be fine with all the usual digital
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    VTX suspects another nice feature on
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    this fight controller is that it does
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    have a TVs protection diode built in as
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    well which should just offer some extra
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    protection and hopefully additional
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    reliability now just moving around to
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    the back of the board there you can see
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    our backs on the S side got our flash
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    storage there and then you've got that
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    dedicated digital connector with some
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    additional pads and like the other one
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    we still have a USBC for updating the
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    firmware next looking at the ESC and
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    this is the km 55A rated at 55 amp 3 to
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    6s input and again based off am32 now
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    this is a bit of a different past
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    compared to the first one you will see
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    it does have a metal heat shield over
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    the top which should help with cooling
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    but the big difference on this is that
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    it is a single sided ESC there is no
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    castellation on the pads on this because
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    the pads do not go to the bottom of the
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    board instead you have just top mounted
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    pads with vires going through and there
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    are no pads on the bottom so there's no
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    need for castellation down the side if
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    we then look on the main battery input
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    it's exactly the same so again there's
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    no pads on the bottom of the board you
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    just have pads on the top although you
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    do have some additional little pads in
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    the middle there for your capacitor what
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    you'll also notice on this side of the
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    board is that the motor controls are on
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    a separate little PCB that is mounted to
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    the main board you do see that's from
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    some manufacturers it just allows them
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    to sort of design that part of the board
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    separately and then mount it onto lots
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    of different designs of esc's absolutely
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    nothing wrong with doing that what we're
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    going to do next is get this under the
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    microscope as well and have a closer
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    look looking at the 20 x 20 again we've
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    got the 722 in the middle we've got our
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    Barrow our rosd chip is on this side of
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    the board this time we've got a
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    protection diod up here which is the TVs
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    diode and then you can see we've got
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    some basic passive components and then
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    you got your pads that run all the way
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    around the outside these are not labeled
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    so you are going to need to use the
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    website instructions to make sure you
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    understand what these are
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    flipping over to the other side of the
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    board again it is conformal coated so
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    it's going to be quite hard to see the
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    components but you can see there we got
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    the wind Bond flash storage invent sense
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    mpu 6000 gyro we've got the voltage
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    regulation circuits on each side as well
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    and then you've just got three pads over
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    there alongside our digital VTX
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    connector down there we also do have our
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    control for our back on our VTX you got
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    the pitch
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    and the 5 volt and that's exactly the
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    same as what we saw on the big
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    controller looking at the ESC you can
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    see the pads there in a bit more detail
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    we've got the vires going through on the
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    edges as well as some vires further up
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    on some of them as it is single-sided
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    pads there isn't a lot to show you on
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    this side but you can see that there are
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    some traces down there but they're not
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    solderable all the soldering is on this
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    side here as I've said because this
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    doesn't have the pads on the bottom
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    there's no castellation exactly the same
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    on the power pads as well as you can see
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    we've got plus and minus there with Vias
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    going through to help spread the current
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    on the other side of the board now just
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    looking on this side just to show you
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    the design so we have a couple of fets
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    here and here on the bottom side of the
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    board we've got our voltage input and
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    regulation area there and then we've got
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    our main motor drivers down here so you
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    can see there you go you can see the
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    at32 F4 two ones for the
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    microcontrollers you can see that one
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    there there there and there and then we
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    got some motor drivers there which look
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    to be labeled sa
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    628
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    408 and obviously as I've said already
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    these were all on a separate PCB that
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    sold us to the main PCB absolutely no
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    issues with that at all soldering on the
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    connections looks really
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    good yeah don't see that causing any
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    problems whatsoever finally just moving
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    up to this side of the board you can
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    then see our ESC connector there's no
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    pads on the bottom but there are pads on
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    the top for the ESC connector if you did
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    want to hardwire it now just to show you
  • 00:12:45
    what else you get in the box with the
  • 00:12:46
    flight controller because I haven't
  • 00:12:48
    actually covered that yet I'm just try
  • 00:12:50
    and get it out there we go in the bottom
  • 00:12:53
    you get this little box and included
  • 00:12:55
    with this
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    is let's say again in we've got our
  • 00:13:00
    power cable we have a capacitor so
  • 00:13:03
    they've included a 35v 1,000 UF so it's
  • 00:13:07
    a nice size that pretty good and then
  • 00:13:11
    we've got a plug and wiring kit with
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    some bolts for our stack mounting
  • 00:13:17
    options basically so everything you need
  • 00:13:19
    to get yourself up and running now the
  • 00:13:21
    next thing I wanted to do was walk you
  • 00:13:22
    through a bit of the overview of the
  • 00:13:24
    configuration of am32 and whilst we are
  • 00:13:27
    still going to do that it was at this
  • 00:13:29
    point in my testing that things went a
  • 00:13:32
    little bit sideways and I found
  • 00:13:34
    something that was rather unexpected and
  • 00:13:36
    that was as follows the km 55A ESC that
  • 00:13:40
    I received is a model that would
  • 00:13:42
    traditionally come with BL heli 32 but
  • 00:13:45
    obviously as a result of the issues
  • 00:13:48
    around that it is now shipping with am32
  • 00:13:52
    and that is absolutely fine where things
  • 00:13:55
    were a little bit strange was with
  • 00:13:57
    regards to this the am6
  • 00:13:59
    which is an ESC labeled am32 but the one
  • 00:14:03
    they've sent me has actually come
  • 00:14:05
    installed with BL heli 32 installed now
  • 00:14:10
    this is a fully legitimate copy of BL
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    heli 32 it is not one of the test
  • 00:14:16
    versions it is version
  • 00:14:19
    3210 that officially looks like it's
  • 00:14:22
    licensed there doesn't seem to be any
  • 00:14:24
    quirks around it whatsoever however that
  • 00:14:28
    is not what what it says on the front of
  • 00:14:30
    the ESC now I do want to state that I
  • 00:14:33
    was sent early release versions of this
  • 00:14:35
    hardware and as a result of that it
  • 00:14:37
    seems there's been a bit of a mixup
  • 00:14:40
    unfortunately though I am not the only
  • 00:14:42
    person to have had this and there are a
  • 00:14:44
    few posts around social media and
  • 00:14:46
    Discord of users facing the same issue
  • 00:14:49
    buying an am32 ESC and getting BL heli
  • 00:14:52
    32 installed whilst this is unfortunate
  • 00:14:56
    I will add that the vision of B heli 32
  • 00:15:00
    that I did get on this ESC is fully
  • 00:15:02
    legitimate it is not that test copy that
  • 00:15:05
    we saw some of the manufacturers ship it
  • 00:15:08
    appears to be a fully licensed copy so
  • 00:15:10
    in the end I'm technically no worse off
  • 00:15:13
    I've got an ESC with legitimate software
  • 00:15:16
    but it isn't the software that it says
  • 00:15:18
    on the front that isn't to say though
  • 00:15:20
    you couldn't flash this to am32 and I'm
  • 00:15:24
    actually going to do a video walking you
  • 00:15:25
    through how to do that later on the
  • 00:15:27
    channel but as I am always open and
  • 00:15:30
    honest on this channel and other users
  • 00:15:32
    have also faced this I did want to
  • 00:15:35
    highlight the fact that this has
  • 00:15:37
    happened and it has happened to other
  • 00:15:39
    people as well but Sky stars are solving
  • 00:15:42
    this for people as I understand it if
  • 00:15:44
    you do get an ESC with the wrong
  • 00:15:45
    firmware and you want to have what it
  • 00:15:48
    says on the front just reach out to them
  • 00:15:50
    and they should swap it out now what I'm
  • 00:15:52
    going to do next is just give you a
  • 00:15:54
    quick overview of the options that are
  • 00:15:56
    available within am32 if you haven't
  • 00:15:58
    seen seen them and then I'll come back
  • 00:16:00
    and share with you some thoughts on the
  • 00:16:01
    hardware itself now one of the great
  • 00:16:02
    things about configuring am32 is the
  • 00:16:04
    fact that you don't need to install any
  • 00:16:06
    software on your computer you can go to
  • 00:16:08
    am32 doca and use their webbased
  • 00:16:12
    configurator that allows you to do all
  • 00:16:14
    of the configuration on your ESC you can
  • 00:16:17
    also use the ESC configurator page this
  • 00:16:21
    not only supports am32 but it supports
  • 00:16:23
    blh s and blue J as well and this is
  • 00:16:26
    probably the most widely known and used
  • 00:16:28
    method of configuring your ESC there is
  • 00:16:30
    also an app available for your PC as
  • 00:16:32
    well if you want to use that offline
  • 00:16:34
    however this isn't quite as smooth or as
  • 00:16:37
    easy to use as the webbased
  • 00:16:38
    configurators now to connect to am32 is
  • 00:16:41
    fairly straightforward pretty much the
  • 00:16:42
    same as it is for BL hel what you first
  • 00:16:45
    of all need to do is select your Port so
  • 00:16:47
    as long as you've got it connected via
  • 00:16:49
    USB you should be fine if you do have
  • 00:16:51
    trouble here just make sure you have got
  • 00:16:53
    be tolight closed because if be tolight
  • 00:16:55
    is open in the background it could
  • 00:16:57
    override the serial Port connection
  • 00:16:59
    we're then going to click connect and
  • 00:17:00
    then read and this will then connect to
  • 00:17:03
    the am32 ESC and then you'll see
  • 00:17:06
    everything pop up on the display now
  • 00:17:08
    looking along the middle the first thing
  • 00:17:09
    you will see is each ESC has been read
  • 00:17:11
    in we have information in here such as
  • 00:17:13
    the bootloader the MCU and the firmware
  • 00:17:15
    type and you can see that for each ESC
  • 00:17:18
    As you move along below this we then
  • 00:17:20
    have some options for each ESC so we can
  • 00:17:22
    reverse the motor output on each one
  • 00:17:24
    independently or we can enable 3D mode
  • 00:17:27
    independently as well scrolling further
  • 00:17:29
    down the screen this is where you get to
  • 00:17:31
    the rest of the main settings for am32
  • 00:17:34
    and at the top of this there's a real
  • 00:17:36
    important one which I think is actually
  • 00:17:38
    a great thing that you have at am32 and
  • 00:17:40
    that is the ability to manually set the
  • 00:17:43
    protocol the way it worked on BL heli
  • 00:17:46
    was the protocol was detected from the
  • 00:17:49
    flight controller on connection based on
  • 00:17:51
    the communication types but this wasn't
  • 00:17:53
    manually setable however here in am32
  • 00:17:57
    you can and the great thing about this
  • 00:17:59
    is it reduces the possibility of things
  • 00:18:02
    like accidental spool UPS as a result of
  • 00:18:05
    the ESC Mis Connect into the flight
  • 00:18:08
    controller and picking up the wrong
  • 00:18:10
    protocol this means you can actually
  • 00:18:12
    manually set the protocol that you want
  • 00:18:14
    it to use for each ESC scrolling down
  • 00:18:16
    from here you then have the more
  • 00:18:18
    advanced options so under motor we've
  • 00:18:20
    got things such as stuck rotor
  • 00:18:22
    protection stall protection Hall sensors
  • 00:18:25
    variable pwm and complimentary pwm
  • 00:18:29
    you've got your timing settings your
  • 00:18:31
    startup power your motor KV options
  • 00:18:33
    motor po options beeper volume and pwm
  • 00:18:37
    frequency controls over here under
  • 00:18:40
    limits you've got things such as
  • 00:18:42
    temperature limit current limit and
  • 00:18:44
    you've got low voltage cut off available
  • 00:18:46
    here as well then you got cidal startup
  • 00:18:49
    if you want that option we've got
  • 00:18:52
    breaking options and then further down
  • 00:18:54
    you've got Servo settings such as the
  • 00:18:56
    low the high threshold the neutral and
  • 00:18:59
    the dead band if you wanted to use it
  • 00:19:01
    with pwm overall everything under here
  • 00:19:04
    is really nice and straightforward about
  • 00:19:06
    the only things you do need to do when
  • 00:19:07
    you first set it up is set your protocol
  • 00:19:09
    i' personally set it manually and then
  • 00:19:11
    you want to make sure you got your motor
  • 00:19:12
    KV right your motor poles right and if
  • 00:19:14
    you want to adjust your pwm you can but
  • 00:19:17
    you shouldn't need to change that from
  • 00:19:19
    standard now I'm going to end this video
  • 00:19:21
    here I'm going to then make another
  • 00:19:23
    video where we're going to flash this to
  • 00:19:27
    am32 and then I'm going to be talking
  • 00:19:29
    about some of my experiences with am32
  • 00:19:32
    once I've done a bit more testing just
  • 00:19:35
    going over some of the things that we've
  • 00:19:37
    seen today with regards to the quality
  • 00:19:38
    of the stacks the hardware is really
  • 00:19:41
    really nice I like the work that Sky
  • 00:19:43
    stars are doing the reports from the
  • 00:19:45
    community on the Sky Stars Hardware is
  • 00:19:47
    really good as well people say it's some
  • 00:19:50
    of the best and most reliable hardw that
  • 00:19:53
    they've used in fact esc's especially
  • 00:19:55
    seem to be pretty much bombproof I also
  • 00:19:59
    like the features that have been
  • 00:20:00
    integrated into am32 and the big one
  • 00:20:03
    here is the ability to be able to set
  • 00:20:05
    the protocol which means you can take
  • 00:20:08
    away some of the risk of your flight
  • 00:20:10
    controller and ESC miscommunicating that
  • 00:20:13
    could potentially result in a spool up
  • 00:20:16
    this very issue was a problem on earlier
  • 00:20:20
    versions of BL heli 32 and whilst they
  • 00:20:23
    did solve and mitigate this I much
  • 00:20:25
    prefer being able to just say hey I want
  • 00:20:28
    to use this protocol and take away
  • 00:20:31
    specifically that risk all together now
  • 00:20:34
    if you're interested in seeing some of
  • 00:20:36
    this hard with yourself there will be a
  • 00:20:38
    link to the Sky Stars website in the
  • 00:20:40
    description I want to say a massive
  • 00:20:42
    thank you to them for sending this over
  • 00:20:44
    as I've said in part two we're going to
  • 00:20:46
    take a look at flashing the ESC to am32
  • 00:20:49
    and walking you through that process now
  • 00:20:51
    if you've liked what you've seen here
  • 00:20:52
    please do let me know below if you have
  • 00:20:53
    any comments or questions let me know as
  • 00:20:55
    well and also if you'd like to support
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    massive thank you to all of my patreons
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    without your support anyway that's it
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